A special discount to Cirque Italia’s Act XII, now at MOSI is being offered to USF students, faculty and staff as well as members of the public who go through the Italian Program’s Facebook page.

Students who produce a valid USF ID at the box office pay $10 for regular seating and $20 for experiential seating. Faculty and staff members with their IDs pay $20 at the box office for regular seating or $30 for experiential row seating. Clicking “like” on www.facebook.com/usfitalianprogram will get $20 regular seating ticket discount and $30 experiential seating ticket discount to members of the community. Online sales are excluded. The offer covers performances through Dec. 2.

“The producers of Cirque Italia are committed to supporting the USF Italian Program and this is a truly delightful introduction to European-style circus entertainment in one of its most spectacular forms,” said La Trecchia, who teaches in the Department of World Languages. “So having fun right across the street from campus will not only be good for all of our hard-working friends and colleagues but it will be good for the program as well.”

The University of South Florida is a high-impact, global research university dedicated to student success. USF is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in the top tier of research universities, a distinction attained by only 2.2 percent of all universities. It ranks 50th in the nation for federal expenditures in research and total expenditures in research among all U.S. universities, public or private, according to the National Science Foundation. The USF System has an annual budget of $1.5 billion, an annual economic impact of $3.7 billion, and serves 47,000 students in Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota-Manatee and Lakeland.